BepiColombo Mercury mission cleared by ESA panel

Europe's next planetary mission -- with a big role for Japan -- will be the long-planned BepiColombo project to explore Mercury. The European Space Agency's Science Program Committee has formally "adopted" the project, kicking off its industrial phase under prime contractor Astrium GmbH to support a...

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